feat: add personal ai policy

Author: foosel

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+title: AI Usage Policy
+date: 2025-03-15
+#lastmod: 2025-03-15
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+*This is a short post summarising my principles about the use of genAI tools, and my concrete usage patterns. I use the word "genAI" here on purpose, to distinguish the current invasive crop of LLM based "AI" from long established machine learning and game dev concepts.*
+
+## Principles 
+
+**When I create something, *I* create it. I don't use genAI for doing the work for me.**
+
+Purely assistive use of AI is something I consider if needed (see below for the details on that), but that is rare.
+
+I avoid cloud based genAI offerings for privacy reasons, and in general I consider the heavy use of genAI I see all around me a very problematic development, not only for the obvious reasons (energy use, ethics, licencing, supporting billionaires & their market manipulation, giving away the means of production, ...), but also because there seem to be more and more studies that show a cognitive impact on users.
+
+## My genAI use in practice
+
+I use AI only sparingly to help with mild aphasia situations or translation, or to get a start into researching a certain topic I lack the right classic search terms for.
+
+If I'm writing or chatting and can't remember the word I want to use, and all attempts to find it on my own (or with the help of another human, if there's one I can ask) fail, I will turn to a *locally installed* LLM and describe the word or concept I'm looking for. For that particular use case, the stochastic nature of an LLM turns out to be actually a nice fit.
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+If I can't remember (or don't know) a word in English but in German or vice versa, I might run it through DeepL to get a fitting translation. Likewise when I need to translate something from a language I don't speak myself (or don't trust myself to speak well enough), to get the basic gist of it.
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+When I'm researching something that I have absolutely no clue about, I sometimes utilize genAI as a kind of search term seed, to give me enough basic understanding of the concept to then use a classic internet search to find further information on it with the right keywords.
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+In the past I've also utilised genAI as spicy auto complete, letting it finish my sentences while writing longer blog posts if I felt like the suggested phrasing matched my own style and was something I would have come up with as well. *I have stopped doing that* and to be honest am not proud of ever having done that, even though it saved me a ton of key strokes.
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